EDC 430: Monday, September 17, 2007: Class 2 - How do Students Learn?

Due Today

• Reading:
  

  How Students Learn Ch 1v2.pdf
  

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• Teaching Rationales
• Clean up your online identities!

Session Goals

• Use URITeacherknowledge to collaborate on a knowledge base for teaching
• Synthesize our and researchers' ideas about how students learn science.

Agenda

• As you come in: Complete Balls of Fury Task.
• Introduction to URITeacherKnowledge
  • The basics: Going home, creating a page, uploading a picture, editing a page, posting a discussion, checking a page's history.
  • Work in pairs to read, discussion, and peer edit teaching rationales.
• Work in Small Groups: How do Students Learn Science?
  • Group 1: Three principles of how students learn.
  • Group 2: Four Themes for Designing Learning Environments
  • Learning Principle Synthesis
• Update on School Visits

For Next Week

• Readings:
  • AAAS Benchmarks, Chapter 1: Nature of Science

• NSES Standards, Chapter 2: Principles and Definitions

• Article: The Trouble with Textbooks at http://www.project2061.org/publications/articles/articles/asee.htm
• Discuss with Cooperating Teacher
  • Possible Unit Topic
• Post on URITeacherknowledge:
  • Scan and Upload the Classroom Policies that you collect from your CT.
  • Your Draft course syllabus . (See course syllabus for sections to include)